Cliches About Revenue Management, Guests’ Quality, and Brand Reputation
What do hoteliers resist about revenue management? One common pushback is lowering prices below a certain psychological threshold. Yet, it's essential during low demand and pays off later. Some hoteliers believe: "I cannot sell below a certain figure because otherwise low-quality guests will arrive and lower the hotel's image; I prefer to stay empty and not sell." Yet, those who practice revenue management know it's the opposite. During low season, you can sell your rooms
Revenue Management Guide: Calculating Costs & Quality Analysis
As a hotelier, you know many factors go into your room rates. Three of those factors are your costs, current demand, and your hotel’s online visibility. Revenue management is the science of assessing these and other factors and raising your profitability year after year. This article offers a guide to analyzing your costs and improving your analysis with the goal to boost your hotel's profitability. Quick Menu: What Kinds of Hotel Costs Do You Take
Revenue Management in 2021 – Basing Every Decision On Data
In 2020, revenue managers were forced to make a massive shift. Instead of leaning on in-house on-the-books (OTB) data, historical and compset information, you now need to focus on much broader data sets. But collecting and evaluating more data takes your team more time. In this article, you'll learn how hotels can use data for a successful post-covid recovery strategy. Data Gives You a Deciding Edge If your hotel is among the 87% of properties
Revenue Management Automation; Does it Answer All Your Questions?
Over the past year, many discussions about revenue management have come up. This raised the debate around the relevance and importance of historical data. And, of course, the corona crisis tested revenue professionals’ trust in automated tools like Revenue Management Systems (RMS). The latter brought many hotels great results despite the pandemic. This article describes how revenue managers can make the most of automation in revenue management to drive business during recovery. How Automation in
Differing Revenue Management Strategies for New Vs Established Hotels
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the recommended revenue management strategies for new hotels / resorts? How do they differ to those used by established properties? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Dr. Betsy Stringam-Bender - Professor of Hotels & Resorts, New Mexico State University Ricardo Sereno - Revenue Manager, Altis Hotels Dermot Herlihy - Owner, Dynamic Hospitality Consulting Pablo Torres - Director Of Sales Marketing,
12 Revenue Management Tips for Hotels
Revenue management within the hospitality industry involves predicting consumer demand to optimize sales, allowing businesses to sell at the right price to the right customer at the right time. In a hotel, this may mean turning away business now to do more profitable business tomorrow. When carried out correctly, revenue management can be extremely effective, helping companies significantly boost their profit margins. Here, we provide 12 revenue management tips for hotels. Table of Contents: 1.
5 Revenue Management Tips for Beach, City, Mountain, or Countryside Hotels
As a hotelier, you know your hotel faces unique revenue management challenges. Your location, primary types of travelers, and the season of the year all play into profitable pricing strategies. This article addresses specific ways to improve your revenue and profitability, regardless of location or seasonality. Revenue Management Tips for Beach, City, Mountain, or Countryside Hotels Some of these tips are essential to savvy revenue management practices regardless of location or seasonality. For instance, the
Interview with Pablo Torres, Hospitality Consultant
In this article, we interview Pablo Torres, a hospitality management expert specializing in revenue optimization and guest experience. With over 20 years in the industry, Pablo develops innovative strategies that drive ancillary revenue and operational efficiency. He is also a consultant, educator, and LinkedIn Top Voice, recently launching
Interview with Founder Franco Grasso of Revenue Team by Franco Grasso
In this interview, we're speaking to Revenue Team by Franco Grasso's founder and CEO, Franco Grasso. Under Grasso's guidance, the company has grown into Europe's largest hotel revenue management consulting and outsourcing entity. His company assists hoteliers in maximizing revenue through optimized sales of hotel rooms while promoting
Interview with CEO and Co-founder Ari Andricopoulos of RoomPriceGenie
We're interviewing Ari Andricopoulos, the CEO and Co-founder of RoomPriceGenie. Ari developed automation that helps hoteliers determine the best pricing policy for any given moment. It's not just a flat number, either. But as an easy-to-understand analysis that both provides advice and explains the reasoning behind the decisions.
Interview with CEO Alexander Edström of Atomize
In this article, we'll be interviewing Alexander Edström of Atomize. In his position as CEO, Alexander has led the development of lean revenue management software for hoteliers on the cutting edge. It is based on the latest innovations in price automation - offering technology that relieves the pain
Boost Your Hotel Profits With An Interim Revenue Manager
Revenue management is more of a philosophy than a set-in-stone strategy. Regarding the hotel and hospitality industry, revenue management is all about selling the right room to the right guest at the best possible time, and always at the best price. Moreover, a good revenue manager will be able to
Intelligent Pricing Automation: Learning from Satellite Navigation
In the mid-90s, when satellite navigation (sat-nav) starting to get popular, the navigation systems based their route recommendation on static data. The result: drivers often didn’t trust the sat nav because the recommended route was not the optimal one. Well, things have changed in the sat-nav landscape. In this article,